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Object Number 88-51-10/50348
Display Title Harpoon head and leader
Descriptions
Object Description Harpoon head and leader
Inventory Description Projectile point, brass point, ivory socket on rawhide
Classification
  • Arrow
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Navugmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / North Slope Burough
Additional Geographic Terms Point Barrow
Dimensions Overall: 39 x 2.7 x 4.3 cm (15 3/8 x 1 1/16 x 1 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50348/ 56623/ 193/ Ooglaamie/ P.H. Ray/ USA/ 1882
Provenance
Collector Lt. P. H. Ray (1882)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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